NEW YORK INTELLECT
Published on 24. April 2013
432 pages
978-0-307-83152-1 (ISBN)
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New York Intellect is Thomas Bender's remarkable look at the connections between the life of a city and the life of the mind. New York has never been comfortable or convenient as a milieu for art and intellect, Bender notes. Yet New Yorkers have always struggled to create institutions and styles of thought and writing that reflect the special character of the city, its boundless energies and deep divisions.
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New York Intellect
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THOMAS H. BENDER is a notable American historian specializing in urban history and intellectual history. He has served as University Professor of the Humanities at New York University since 1982. He was the Chair of the Department of History from 1986 to 1989 and Dean for the Humanities from 1995 to 1998. In addition to an extensive body of published books, he has written for The New York Times, The Nation, The LA Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Newsday. He retired in 2015.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Prologue: New York City and the Condition of Intellect
- Part I: Civic Culture
- Chapter 1: The Emergence of City Culture in New York
- Professionalism and Learning
- King's College
- The Friendly Club
- Configuration and Achievement
- Chapter 2: Patricians and Artisans
- Patrician Improvers
- To Make a Center
- Learned Mechanics
- Chapter 3: A University of the City
- The University and the Class System
- Metropolitanism and University Learning
- Part II: Literary Culture
- Chapter 4: Toward a Metropolitan Sensibility
- Echoes and Premonitions
- Gentry
- Democracy
- Urbanity
- Chapter 5: The Metropolitan Gentry: Culture Against Politics
- The Authority of Culture
- Metropolitan Journalism and Political Opinion
- "Civic Murder"
- Urban Reform
- Chapter 6: The Modern Literary Intellectual
- The Arnoldian Impulse
- Union Square
- Metropolitanism and the Intellectual
- The Young Intellectuals
- War
- Shrinkage and Fragmentation
- Man of Letters
- Part III: Academic Culture
- Chapter 7: A Metropolitan University
- Cultural Reform and the University
- The Beginnings of Columbia University
- Civic Culture and Academic Culture
- Ethnicity and Class
- Chapter 8: Professors as Intellectuals
- War on Campus
- Power and Intellect
- Democracy's Intellect
- Succession
- Part IV: An International Capital of Culture
- Chapter 9: Refiguration
- Uptown Bohemia
- Precedents and Contexts
- International Modernism
- Epilogue
- Notes
